Flickr Creative Commons license

Photos that were Creative Commons licensed before our announcement are also safe. We won’t be deleting anything that was uploaded with a CC license before November 1, 2018. Even if you had more than 1,000 photos or videos with a CC license. However, if you do have more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded, you’ll be unable to upload additional photos after January 8, 2019, unless you upgrade to a Pro account. via flickr blog http://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/07/the-commons-the-past-is-100-part-of-our-future/

I've had a bit of a pit in my stomach about this because there are zillions of links to Creative Commons photos all over the web, and if they go away the photos will not display anymore in very important articles. It would be an unimaginable loss to the Internet. Being the cofounder of SmugMug, people have pushed me about this, even on my Google+ AMA.

Anyway, I thought Don did a great job of clarifying that they will not be deleted. Thank God.